The answer to providing medical care for poor lies with volunteer initiative

4:17 AM,
Dec. 21, 2013

Dr. Ming Wang

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Dr. Ming Wang

America needs to provide adequate health care for the poor, but there seems to be no way to pay for it. More government control and higher taxes are clearly not the solution, but what is?

As a physician who has provided care for more than 20 years, I believe that there is, in fact, an effective yet often overlooked measure that can help reduce the financial burden to care for the poor: volunteer medical care.

If physicians were asked if they would be willing to donate a small amount of time to provide charity care, most would say yes. However, since there is no system in place to identify these patients ...